Vulnerability Hangover

I used to track mine so I could pre-program DO NOT ENGAGE warnings on my calendar for the couple days before.

OMG!!!!

Let's just go straight into everything being oak & hunter green.

SKIP COUNTRY BLUE/MAUVE (wood AND glass/brass varieties)

Last night on IG I saw someone opening up a pan of COUNTRY BLUE paint and noooooo!!!!

CAN WE NOT DO THIS, PLEASE?!

Orgs with budgets really need to invest in facilitation training for staff, rather than just pushing people into the deep end without a sense of how to do the work. Because everyone has a shittier time when folks do not get some advice and instruction.

Good facilitation is so undervalued.

Good morning

https://youtu.be/1QWEPdgS3As

Gentefied - Freaks and Geeks - My So Called Life - Kevin Hill - The State

If they fuck with Wheel of Time…

Back when I was covering various movements in 2011-2014, I was mostly using smart devices to tweet things in real time from the ground, while also taking a few photos here and there and writing about it later. While the visuals I tweeted weren't good, they were still a record of what happened.

We should talk about how to properly archive and provide access to digital history, particularly when it comes to things that only appear online. With Twitter specifically here, this means that any visuals folks posted covering multiple movements are ostensibly gone.

Chicago area, from Wichita. You?

Just blocked my first two accounts. Not sure I'm made for these wide open streets.

btw: RockChalk!

I'm not deleting until it's dead, dead, dead.

There's just no other place that's been around for over a decade where you can (or could) log on, see an emerging situation in the news and find global or national opinions easily, and tell at a glance whether their opinion was of significant value (even if it challenged your own.)

Yup. But we know that people have already been falsely arrested w/facial recognition software. I don't know if the innocents will be harmed as much as the guilty will get off, but I think it will happen.

Holy shit. Someone RTd me and I have 30+ notifications. It's like the BEFORE TIMES.

You know, before I locked all my socials to anyone who wasn't following me.

I imagine the BSKY developers waiting to jump in like a game of double-dutch, each time Elon did something awful on Twitter.

Will it be THIS time that they come?
Will it be THIS time that they come?
Will it be THIS time that they come?
OH SHIT WE'RE IN THE GAME START JUMPING

NGL I've wanted to.

Ferguson was my first BIG time of learning that many (all?) major media outlets were full of shit. I'd watch something on a livestream on Twitter and/or people live-tweeting and see a completely different story told on the big news channels that night.

I remember being on duty to "report" for a few organizing groups, in this way. I'd be on site, tweeting, or even at home w/a contact texting me real-time and I'd tweet so others could quickly act & sometimes change direction, avoid interference, etc.

I found a photo similar to this in the early 2000s and printed it out for the cover of a mix CD I made for a friend.

Another way to look at that - trying to not just be 100% depressed - is: Wow. Look at what the world accomplished. Look at what we were able to do with a single website. It's really incredible.

I've said this before, but this is the worst of all of it, to me. I am sad to lose the friendships and the culture and all the fun, educational parts of Twitter. But the worst loss is how it was used for incredibly important information-sharing related to crises, global events, truth-telling.

Ok so I just sounded off on Tw about how deepfake/AI and manipulation of videos will create so many terrible situations which will affect our laws, court cases, elections, support of the government, etc.

I won't repeat all of that (unless you ask), but have you thought about this?

Just did this!

Went through my Twitter list and there are MANY who aren’t here or I don’t know their name here.

Friends for a season, etc etc etc

I’m basically following only people I followed on Twitter. Not against, but not looking for new folks, just hoping to not lose touch or lose the voices I love over there. I know it won’t be ALL the same here but that’s life, I accept it.

Glad to see y’all, though.